Watching From a Distance

Sometimes when I watch you
You seem like the same person
That I once knew
And watch from a distance
But never able to do more
Than I ever would

Looking at you
I find again I am starving
In your mystery
So far away and some kind of helplessness
And then I remember
That I know you love me, I know you do

Sometimes when I
I listen to your fearless voice
It's the voice I once heard
I want to know you
And understand you more
Than I fear I do

To keep the wonder
The moment you seem like a stranger
To my heart and me
And all I want
In an instant I see you perfected again
Though you'd never change
Please remember when you ever think of me